Vatican scandals lift lid on secret power struggle

VATICAN CITY
CNN

By Richard Allen Greene, CNN

(CNN) – Bad luck comes in threes, even for the pope.

The past week has seen his butler arrested, accused of leaking secret papers from the papal apartment; the head of his bank sacked for incompetence; and a demonstration on his front doorstep by protesters demanding that he reveal what he knows about Italy’s most famous missing-person case.

It’s bad PR for the Vatican, but it may be more than that, experts say. It could affect who becomes the next pope.

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